So basically @librarylock and I conspired for me to write a crack fic based off of her crack fic (all details included in the AO3 link below! also Lilo will have hers posted soon and I’ll link back then ahhhhh) and it spiraled out of control and I ended up with 3500 words of implied Johnlock and Reichenangst and crossover sex. So yeah, enjoy lmao.
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John’s first thought as he takes in the sight before him is, If Sherlock isn’t really dead, I’m going to kill him myself.
He’d heard the commotion from down the street, three passersby grouped over a grounded, though not prone, man. The shout of “is anyone a doctor?” had sent him running their way until the man lifted his head and John had frozen in place.
Perhaps his very first thought isn’t actually a thought at all. Shock grief hope anger love. A tsunami of emotions that must show on his face, because the man, outlandishly dressed and sporting a cut to the temple, gets to his feet and eyes John with more concern that it seems he feels for his own predicament, before asking, “So… where am I, exactly?”
The clothing. The heavy American accent. The close-cropped hair and stylized beard. John isn’t buying it for a second.
“Right,” he says, words choked with emotion as his fists clench and his body slides into an aggressive stance. “What the hell is this? Sherlo-”
His voice breaks, but the seething fire inside carries him on.
“Sherlock Holmes.” He spits the name, fists closing in heavy blue fabric before he realizes he’s moved forward. “Start talking. Right fucking now.”
The man blinks in front of him, still the picture of bewilderment, as John hears whispers behind him of “ Sherlock Holmes, that detective that killed himself? ” and “ Are they both a little mad, you think? ”
It takes less than three seconds of glaring into this man’s eyes for John to know that it isn’t Sherlock. They’re disturbingly similar, as with everything else about him under the hair and beard, but they’re not his. John knows.
He steps away from the man, blinking rapidly, chest heaving, hand trailing over the large golden pendant the man wears, as he releases the tunic. For a moment, he doesn’t know what to say, but what he does know is that he needs to talk with this man.
“Forgive the misunderstanding,” he manages in the direction of the assembled onlookers, impatient to get them moving along. “I’ll help this man out, I’m a doctor, thank you for your concern.”
He turns his head to the man, hoping he’ll concede, and he does, with an awkward half-smile and incline of the head toward the group. The behavior is so reminiscent of Sherlock that John is left winded and desperate to make sense of it all.
As the people disperse, John takes another step back to face the man directly. His brain continues to assault him with the notion that it’s Sherlock playing dress up, lying, deceiving, tormenting him.
“I take it you… mistook me for someone,” the man says after several moments of silence, and the American accent is distinct enough that it helps the disconnect for John, and he’s grateful.
“Yeah, I. Yeah.” John runs a hand through his hair. “God, but you look like him.”
“Aaaand he… wronged you? That’s my best guess, man.” The stranger shifts, looking around with what still appears to be confusion. “Not exactly what you expect when a doctor comes running.”
“Yeah, sorry, I…” The situation at hand catches up with John, and he pushes the weight of emotion to the side in an effort to be a bloody doctor. “Look, this isn’t the place. Can I escort you to A&E? Or if you prefer…”
John shouldn’t offer this. He falters, and the man’s eyes, not Sherlock’s but piercing and captivating all the same, seem to alight at the implied suggestion.
“It’s… well, it doesn’t seem to be a serious injury,” John continues, light-headed and nervous, but with his body thrumming in a way it hasn’t since before Sherlock had gone. “And you seem lost. I… I actually am a doctor, I could patch you up at my place, pretty close by, send you on your way without unnecessary procedure.”
The strange man doesn’t reply, considering John’s offer as he touches fingertips to his temple.
“And frankly, you look ridiculous.” John adds, the barest hint of amusement breaking through. “Might want to get you out of the public eye.”
The man cracks a smile and extends a hand. “Stephen.”
John exhales and clasps their hands together. “John. And you’re in London.”
Mother’s Day is rapidly approaching and the general commercial blitz has started. Please remember that it’s hard for some people for a variety of reasons.
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self-discovery time?
I had so much fun writing f/f but it is getting hits and kudos so much slower than other stuff I write. Do I suck at it or is traffic just really slow on f/f? I wanted to write more but if seriously only 7 people like it motivation evaporates. I know that shouldn’t be true I should just write to write, but…?
Studies have shown this to be the case for lots of fat people, actually. You’re not alone.
-Mod Bella
THAT’S IT. The main reason why talking about someone’s weight or eating habits are bad, no matter what. EVERYONE, fat or not, use food as an escape mechanism.
If you are REALLY concerned about the health of an overweight person (or anyone, really), be available to talk to them about their problems, without judgment and offering positive words. Make them see how beautiful and strong they are. How they can make anything good happen.
Don’t talk about their looks or the food they choose to eat, THEY KNOW what they are consuming. And that’s not the root of all their unhealthy actions in their life. AT ALL.
DON’T BE PART OF THEIR PROBLEMS.
Adding to this, never assume that someone’s size is related to health problems or that changing how they eat is going to solve those problems. You really don’t know. And remember that people’s mental health is just as important as their physical health if not more so.
-Mod Bella
This is so important! Honestly my mother is still fatshaming me because she literally doesn’t get that is what she is doing. She said something “helpful” the other day about avoiding the donuts at a church thing and I honestly said, “and now I want to eat two of them” and her eyes got as big as saucers. I finally have the strength to tell her what she is doing to me and it is honestly so freeing.
holy shit literal children should not be taught abt sex and preteens that do experience sexual attraction have no privilege over their peers who might experience it later or not at all
ok but leaving the discourse behind, sex education is actually really important though??? i mean, my elementary school taught that so sex wouldn’t be a stigmatized thing for in the future
literal children are already taught about sex, i don’t understand. in my elementary school, in 4th grade we were taught about “”“male and female”“” development and “urges” we would feel. in 5th grade, we saw actual pictures of naked adult bodies, and in 6th grade we were taught about “types” of sex and protection and pregnancy.
my parents gave me a book targeted at 7-12 year olds that also taught about sex and the body and sex organs and shit like that, like. this post is objectively bad. education from a young age is good and important for the destigmatization of sex in society. i don’t understand, is there a point you hadn’t made clear that i’m misunderstanding, maybe?
let’s not show nudes to ten year olds what fucking school did you go to
learning abt puberty =/= learning about how to fuck and 110 versions of asexuality
I… wha… where the hell were you raised that you think there’s something wrong with kids knowing what a naked body looks like? What century is this?
Sex education isn’t just learning about puberty; it’s learning about sex, relationships and consent, and it’s goddamn important even for children.
I started having sexual fantasies when I was 4 years old; I just didn’t know what they were at the time, or why they made me feel strangely good. My Mum gave me my first book on sex and sexual health when I was 8, but by that time I’d already heard years’ worth of playground rumours about “sex” ranging from the improbable to the downright terrifying, and had at least one inappropriate physical encounter with another child. It’s much better for kids to be taught healthy and safe attitudes to their own sexual development – physiological and mental – than for them run off fifth-hand misconceptions they pick up from equally clueless kids.
I’m not saying we should be teaching five-year-olds about reverse cowgirl. I’m saying it’s never too early to teach kids messages like, “If she’s not having fun you have to stop.” I’m saying most kids have some awareness that sex and sexuality exist, even if they don’t fully understand what those things are. I’m saying some kids have feelings about getting physical with other people from a very early age. I was particularly precocious, but the average age people start experiencing sexual attraction is 10 years old.
And I’m saying that all of these things are why it’s crucially important to give kids the tools and information they need to contextualise and process their understanding of sex and sexuality, both in terms of their own possible sexual identities (all possible sexual identities), and of course in terms of consent and bodily autonomy.
Apart from anything else, we’ve seen proof that this makes kids safer in terms of identifying and reporting sexual abuse. The puritan myth that kids live in some magical fairyland isolated from any conception of sex or sexuality literally causes harm to children. You’re not protecting them from dangerous information, you’re depriving them of information and support they need to safely contextualise their experiences and feelings.
Teaching kids about sex is not the same thing as encouraging kids to have sex. That is literally the exact same bullshit argument that religious fundamentalists use to try to justify abstinence-only sex ed.
There is a training called Our Whole Lives (OWL) that deals with appropriate sex and health training which can have a religious component or not and is inclusive of LGBT in addition to het sex. It starts in kindergarten and goes through older adults and is designed to give people the tools they need to understand themselves, their bodies, their sexuality and their health as developmentally appropriate, because the sex ed you need in Kindy is not at all the same as what you need at 14 or 35 or 50. My gf is trained in the high school one. It is amazing and I can’t believe I don’t see tons about it on Tumblr.
Honestly “queer” is so useful for people like me w/ a “complicated orientation” b/c instead of having to say I’m “asexual panromantic” and explain what that means, I can just say “I’m queer” and it tells you all you need to know (that I’m not straight).
yeah sure good for you but don’t ever ever use that word for someone who doesn’t identify as it themselves, it’s not an umbrella term for everyone. also “pan/ace” would definitely work, even if you don’t want to use it, other people could. i use ace lesbian and definitely not the q slur.
Wow its almost like they were just talking about using it on themselves for individual reasons and you butted in to be an ass and be condescending because you think you’re superior for not using queer, then you called their identity a slur right to them. But that can’t possibly be what you were trying to do, right?
Anyone is allowed to use it for themselves, I never said no one should do that if that’s what they want. Queer is a slur though. I just want people to be aware of that, I have no idea if OP is aware of that or not but some people using that word aren’t. I’m tired of people including me and other people who don’t want to be included in that word, and before anyone asks, I never meant that OP did that, because I literally have no idea if they do.
Queer is a slur as much as any other LGBT+ word, I just want you to be aware of that.
“Gay” is used as an insult. It is used to be demeaning. Its used to discriminate. And yet its used as the all mighty umbrella – gay rights, gay marriage, gay community – when discussing the entire community.
Gay gets used as a slur. Queer gets used as a slur. But I don’t walk up to gay people and say “your identity is a slur, you know that right” or get pissed when they say “the gay community” when they mean the whole community.
Personal identity and preference in terms, even harmful words that get used as slurs, are not questioned; except for the word Queer.
Queer gets shut down. Queer people get others in their faces saying “your identity is a slur!” Queer people don’t have the freedom to identify in a community, but are forced under other terms against their will due to hypocrisy and double standards.
So if you’re not going to come onto gay people’s posts for the same behavior, maybe critically analyze why exactly you feel the need to be so condescending to Queer people, specifically on posts that ONLY have to do with personal identity. Why you feel the need to insist to Queer people that their identities are slurs, to directly slap away the power of reclaiming a word from them by demanding it remain in the hands of the Straights as a perpetual slur.
I think an important difference between gay and queer is however, that queer started out as a slur used against members of the community and continues to be used as a slur in many places. Whereas gay began as a word the community chose itself to describe itself and was then later used by homophobes and heterosexuals in general in a negative way, meaning however, that gay doesn’t hold the same negative connotations as queer for many people simply because it was our word that they took, and not a word that they forced on us to make us “strange” or “other” like queer means.
That’s…. Not true. People think so because the history before gay was reclaimed is way older (older than any love community member’s lifetimes, probably,) but gay had the exact same origins.
It was meant to denote sexually perverse people, most frequently sex workers and those who hired them. Anyone who participated in anything but married, vanilla, straight sex might have been referred to as “gay,” including any suspected LGBT person.
The word (already being one frequently used on the community,) was reclaimed as a community identifier when the community wanted to disconnect from the clinical and diagnostic implications of “homosexual.”
There is record of queer being reclaimed and used as a personal identifier literally before the popularization of gay. Both words are reclaimed slurs with negative histories, and BOTH are used as slurs against the community still to this day.
The more recent history of the mid to late 20th century more prevalently favored queer as a slur, as is represented in our media. However its clearly undeniable that the switch back to gay as the popular community slur (along with the ever present f slur,) happened in the 2000s. Which is trying to be denied and rewritten by the anti queer crowd, who completely ignore the words popularity with community members who actually lived through when it was a popular slur.
Yes to all of this. When it comes to words for “not straight” there are hardly any choices that didn’t originate as ways to stigmatize or pathologize us. We are all using reclaimed slurs to describe ourselves.
Also, queer is reclaimed in a particularly empowering way. It doesn’t just mean “same-sex attraction” but encompasses a whole spectrum of attractions and gender orientations. It’s a word that says to asexuals, pansexuals, bisexuals, trans folks, genderfluid and genderqueer and genderless folks and people who are still figuring themselves out, “hey, you’ve got a home here. We don’t need to categorize you to love you.”
This is important because there are a lot of divisions within the LGBTQ+ world, and in particular cis gay men and cis lesbians often overlook or exclude trans, bi and asexual people. Queer is the only word that not only demands equal acceptance for everyone, but leaves the door open for words and descriptors that haven’t even been invented yet.
Somebody else pointed this out earlier to me, and of course I’ve lost the post, but it’s really suspicious that of all the reclaimed slurs, the one that gets the most pushback is the one that is most radically accepting of all identities
“hey, you’ve got a home here. We don’t need to categorize you to love you.”
Lmao yeah! the pushback against this idea is overt and disgusting and I don’t trust anybody who perpetuates it.
Queer is an ideology and an identity, historically and now. It is an umbrella for that ideology and an umbrella for those identities, historically and now. They can’t be conflated (with LGBT) and it’s super fucking disingenuous to pretend one is just the tarnished besmirched dirty slur version of the other. They’re different. In my particular work for example, Queer bioethics is different from LGBT bioethics and conflating the two will muddle any discussion you try to have about them because they lead to literally opposite conclusions in some cases.
Yeah I freaking love pancakes
Wait wrong post
By far the best addition to this post
This is one of those things where I feel like an old.
Like, *the* slogan I associate with pride is, “We’re here, we’re queer – get used to it!”
There was a TV show called “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” that was total mainstream pap. (Not that the show wasn’t riddles problematic elements from the concept out, but ‘queer’ in the title was clearly meant as a positive.)
I just have a hard time processing queer as anything but reclaimed.
They actually shot “Queer As Folk” in my city!
TERFs and radical gender/sexuality bianarists are flooding social media and blogging sites with propaganda smearing the word queer in the hopes of silencing all of us who don’t identify with their hate politics. I fought hard to reclaim the word queer in the late 80s and early 90s, and it’s the one word that doesn’t worship exclusion. Which is why these people are trying to convince you not to use it. fuck that noise. there is literally no word i could use to identify my sexuality that hasn’t been thrown at me in hatred, fear, and violence. No way am I giving up the one of those that allows me to talk about all of my community without trying to put people in boxes they don’t fit in.
I will never not reblog this post. Queer, queer, queer here.
“Queer” has been claimed by queer people as a self-descriptor since at least 1910. It’s an insult to those historical people (and all the generations of queer historical people who have identified as queer since then) to pretend that the people using it as a slur owned it more than the queer people who used it as a self-descriptor.
Source: George Chauncey, “Gay New York,” page 101
They don’t want us to use queer because they don’t want to be lumped in with anyone who’s not cis gay or cis lesbian. So fine. You don’t like the word queer? You don’t want to be in the “queer” community? Get the fuck out, then. Y’all don’t welcome us in your community anyway, so we’ll just have our own.
And it’ll be queer as fuck.
I fucking love the word queer ❤
Or, to put it another way, using a great old slogan of the community: I’m not gay as in happy, I’m queer as in fuck you.
Yes yes yes yes yes! These younglings today don’t know their queer history but feel so free to comment on it. Trying so desperately to assimilate into straight culture by turning your nose up at queer, and all the people who take refuge under its umbrella. Queer accepted me when nobody else would, not even the LGBT groups.
Queer is full of the types of people who don’t make good poster children for the middle class assimilationist cis gay couple just looking to get married and have some kids. Queer forces us to realize the fight didn’t end with gay marriage, and cis gays are gonna have to step out of the spotlight sometimes, and realize cis gays have privilege, and fight for someone with less. Trans people, nonbinary people, people in nontraditional relationship structures, aromantics, asexuals, sex workers. Heck more and more bisexual people these days are switching over to queer because the amount of biphobia in the so-called lgBt community is so alienating, and also because so many of us feel the term bisexual reinforces a false gender dichotomy and we’re too tired of jokes about kitchenware to use pansexual.
Part of what I love about the term queer is that it does make people uncomfortable. It makes them aware of their privilege, exposes certain biases, even within the LGBT community. What’s so wrong with a movement that strives to fight for everybody, huh? Huh?
Proudly bi, proudly queer, and being part of this movement when I was young was an honor.
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